Name: Hemingway
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 7.5 ml Absinthe; 12.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 12.5 ml Lime juice; 120 ml Brut sparkling wine

Hemingway
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Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₄ oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
0.42 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
0.42 oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
4 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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Garnish: ¼ lime wheel slice on rim

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

Delicately sweetened lime and champagne with faint notes of aniseed from the absinthe.

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History:

A lime influenced riff on Ernest Hemingway's classic Death in the Afternoon. Another version of this cocktail, apparently created at Cantineros' Club, the famous Cuban bar school, calls for a shot of Pernod anis to be poured into a chilled glass and then topped with champagne.

Nutrition:

One serving of Hemingway contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
9.4% alc./vol. (9.4° proof)
14.3 grams of pure alcohol

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